Mount Olive, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36016. It lies near Graveyard Hill. The Survey maps it on the Clayton North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mount Olive within Barbour County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Clayton North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive (historical) between 1994 and 2018, burning about 428 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	34 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140911-001
9 August 2017	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170809-1
22 July 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 1996	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	POORHOUSE RD., AL
24 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Mount Olive (historical): 7 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Barbour County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Clayton	4.0 miles	8
White Oak	4.9 miles	7
Bells Crossroads	5.9 miles	7
Mount Andrew	6.1 miles	7
Garmon Crossroads	7.0 miles	7
Comer	7.2 miles	8
Gaino	7.5 miles	7
Fairmount (historical)	7.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 134807. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.